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implemented to connect graduating
students to industr y. A similar
approach to connect interns to prospective employers, via a career portal, is undertaken by the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative, a
membership-based consortium working to advance and strengthen the
U.S. power electronics ecosystem.
To train the existing workforce,
PowerAmerica organizes an annual
industry-driven 2.5-day WBG short

2 Foundry and Device
Development
2.1 SiC Power Device Commercial
Foundry Development (X-FAB)
2.3 Development of Manufacturable
Gen 3, 3.3-kV/50-mOhm MOSFET
Fabricated on 150-mm 4HN-SiC
Wafers Along With HTRB, HTGB,
BDOL, TS, ESD, and TDDB (Cree/
Wolfspeed)
2.14 6.5-kV SiC DMOSFET
Development on 150-mm
Platform (GeneSiC)
2.20 Commercialization of 3.3-kV
and Technology Development of
6.5-kV SiC Devices (Microsemi)
2.23 SiC Planar DMOSFETs and
Power ICs With Enhanced
Short-Circuit Withstand
Time (Sonrisa)

course taught by world-renowned
exper ts from across the United
States. The short course aims to provide diverse applied training that
fills industry knowledge gaps. Its
content was formulated by evaluating data from our industry-wide polls
that asked the question: "What training is needed to catalyze your WBG
growth and is not available in present educational settings?" The PowerAmerica short course offering is con-

3 Module Development
and Manufacturing
3.1 Industry-Driven MV
SiC Power Module
Manufacturing
(Cree/Fayetteville)
3.6 Developing
Processes for BPDFree RoomTemperature Al
Implantation/Annealing
for MOSFETs and
Lifetime Control for
Bipolar Devices (NRL)
3.9 Design and
Manufacturing of
Advanced, Reliable
WBG Power
Modules (GE)

tinuously optimized through attendee feedback and is typically offered
to sold-out audiences in the fall of
each year.
Our additional educational initiatives include monthly technical webinars by member experts that are open
to all. WBG lectures are also being
added to power electronics courses
across all 18 of our member universities, and tutorials are organized at the
winter and summer PowerAmerica

5 Education and
Workforce
Development

4 Commercialization
Applications
4.1 Power-Dense Engine Coolant
200-kW 2,050-V dc Bus SiC Inverter
for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
(John Deere Electronic Solutions)
4.2 Modular SiC-Based Three-Phase
ac/dc Front-End Rectifier With 99%
Efficiency (ABB)
4.3 Development, Demonstration,
and Commercialization of SiC-Based
1-MW Medium-Voltage Motor Drive
System (Toshiba)
4.7 Direct-to-Line Central Inverter for
Utility-Scale PV Plants Using 10-kV
SiC MOSFET Devices (VA Tech/Burgos)
4.8 MV ac to Low-Voltage dc Power
Conversion for Data Center
(VA Tech/Li+Infineon)
4.10 Transformerless Medium-Voltage
Central PV Inverter (FSU/Li+GE)
4.11 Asynchronous Microgrid Power
Conditioning System (NCU/Bhattacharya)
4.23 High-Speed Energy-Efficient
HVAC Drive (UTRC)
4.15 Isolated, Soft-Switching SEPIC
With Active Clamp for 480 V ac to 400 V
dc Rectifier for Data Centers (ASU/
Ayyanar)
4.28 Multifunctional High-Efficiency
High-Density MV SiC-Based
Asynchronous Microgrid Power
Conditioning System Module
(UTK/Wang)
4.32 GaN-based High-Efficiency
Multiload Wireless Power Supply
(UTK/Costinett)
4.33 Dual-Inductor Hybrid Converter
for Direct 48 V to sub-1 V PoL dc-dc
Module (U-CO/Maksimovic)
4.34 Introduction of WBG Devices for
Solid-State Circuit Breaking at
MV (UNCC/Manjrekar)
4.36 600-V GaN Bi-directional
Switch (Infineon)

5.1 Education and
Workforce Pipeline
5.4 Undergraduate
Research Scholars
5.5 Pre-College
Education
5.6 WBG Short
Courses
5.13 Documentation
of Design and
Process of GaN
Power HEMTs
(RPI/Chow)
5.14 WBG Power
Converter Design
Space Exploration
(NCSU/Lukic)
5.16 Universal Platform
of Education, Research,
and Industrial Rapid
Prototyping of
High-Power WBG
Applications
(NCSU/Husain)
5.17 Graduate WBG
Semiconductor Power
Device Lab
(NCSU/Pavlidis)
5.18 Power Electronics
Teaching Lab
Incorporating WBG
Switches and
Circuits (UNCC/
Parkideh)

FIG 2 The 2019 annual PowerAmerica project portfolio. New member projects are shown in blue. US$6.8 million is allocated to
18 university projects that provide specialized hands-on training to 85 students.

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